EP0793123B1 - Dispositif pour mettre en forme des signaux optiques pour des applications nécessitant des mises en forme spectrales complexes - Google Patents

Dispositif pour mettre en forme des signaux optiques pour des applications nécessitant des mises en forme spectrales complexes Download PDF

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EP0793123B1
EP0793123B1 EP97301017A EP97301017A EP0793123B1 EP 0793123 B1 EP0793123 B1 EP 0793123B1 EP 97301017 A EP97301017 A EP 97301017A EP 97301017 A EP97301017 A EP 97301017A EP 0793123 B1 EP0793123 B1 EP 0793123B1
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    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
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    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
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    • G02B6/02057—Optical fibres with cladding with or without a coating comprising gratings
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  • the present invention is directed, in general, to optical systems and optical shaping devices and, more specifically, to optical systems and devices employing a chirped long period grating for complex spectral shaping applications.
  • Optical fibers are key components in modern telecommunications. These fibers are thin strands of glass capable for transmitting an optical signal containing a large amount of information over long distances.
  • an optical fiber is a small diameter waveguide characterized by a core with a first index of refraction surrounded by a cladding having a second, lower index of refraction.
  • Typical optical fibers are made of high purity silica with minor concentrations of dopants to control the index of refraction.
  • single fibers can carry multiple packets of data that are multiplexed on the fiber either by time division multiplexing where different slots of time are allocated to different packets or by wave division multiplexing where different wavelengths are allocated for different data channels.
  • optical amplifiers are placed at intervals along the fiber, much as conventional amplifiers are used in analog coaxial-cable systems.
  • the optical amplifier is a single component that delivers at its output a linearly amplified replica of the optical input signal.
  • the optical amplifier is very flexible and can be used for any modulation scheme at any bit-rate.
  • optical amplifiers have two disadvantages associated with their use.
  • the gain provided by the amplifier is not the same for all the channels. This is because the gain spectrum of the amplifier is nonuniform. This nonuniformity is evident even for signals that enter the amplifier with equal amplitudes and is considered the linear nonuniformity, since it does not depend on the intensity of the pulses entering the amplifier.
  • the gain is maximum at around 1558 nm. As a result, the channel centered at 1558 nm will be amplified the most whereas the channel at 1555 nm will not have the same amount of power as it emerges from the amplifier.
  • the optical pulses get repeatedly amplified.
  • This nonlinear property can be best described as the amplifier's tendency of being partial to signals that enter with higher amplitude; that is, when two signals are incident into the amplifier, the one with the larger amplitude gets amplified more.
  • the second disadvantage with the use of the optical amplifiers currently available is that along with the signal being amplified there is generated an amplified spontaneous noise (ASE), which is typically centered at a different wavelength.
  • ASE amplified spontaneous noise
  • the peak of the erbium ASE is at 1532 nm.
  • this wavelength dependent loss element should have zero loss at any of the signal wavelengths.
  • the transmission spectrum of this device, which removes ASE should have no side lobes on the longer wavelength side of its main transmission dip, since the signal wavelengths can start as low as 1545 nm.
  • other types of lasers and amplifiers such as Raman lasers and amplifiers, there is often a need for a similar device with no side lobes on the shorter wavelength side.
  • a nonguided mode is a mode that is not confined to the core of an optical fiber but uses the regions around the core to travel small distances down the fiber.
  • a nonguided mode can be a cladding mode, a radiation mode or in the case of a multilayered fiber a ring mode.
  • the method involves mathematically breaking up the spectrum into a sum of two (or three) Gaussians, making each individual filter and then splicing the devices together.
  • the spectrum has only one minimum and is asymmetric, the problem of deconvolving the spectrum into a sum of several symmetric Gaussians using multiple conventional long period gratings becomes intractable.
  • Short period gratings that have been chirped by varying the ultra violet (uv) light intensity or placing strain on the optical fiber as the grating is written are also known See J. Martin et al. "Novel writing technique of long in-fiber Bragg gratings and investigation of the linearly chirped component", CLEO '94, and R. Kashyap, "Photosensitive Optical Fibers: Devices and Applications", Optical Fiber Technology, vol. 1, pages 17-34 (1994). Another technique for producing chirped gratings is disclosed in EP-A-0606 726. However, these short period gratings are not useful in removing certain complex spectral slices from the optical fiber.
  • optical shaping device that can be selectively designed to match the asymmetric spectral shapes typically produced by rare-earth doped amplifiers to either thereby removing undesirable gain at a given wavelength or remove complex spectra from the core of the optical fiber.
  • the optical shaper of the present invention provides such a device.
  • the present invention provides an optical signal shaping device as defined in claim 1.
  • the long period grating is configured to divert at least a portion of a short wavelength on a short wavelength side of a minimuminto the cladding, to thereby produce an asymmetrical optical signal having side lobes on the short wavelength side of the minimum. More preferably, however, the grating diverts a substantial portion of the short wavelength to the cladding to substantially eliminate it from the spectrum.
  • the optical amplifier is of conventional design, preferably a rare-earth doped amplifier, such as an erbium-doped amplifier, and is capable of transmitting an amplified asymmetrical optical signal to the optical fiber.
  • the long period grating is configured to divert at least a portion of the amplified asymmetrical optical signal to the cladding and more preferably a substantial portion of the amplified asymmetrical optical signal to the cladding.
  • the optical amplifier may produce an amplified asymmetrical optical signal that has a short wavelength on a short wavelength side of a minimum of the asymmetrical optical signal.
  • the long period grating can be configured to divert at least a portion of the short wavelength to the cladding and more preferably a substantial portion of the short wavelength into the cladding.
  • the optical amplifier may produce an amplified asymmetrical optical signal that has a long wavelength on a long wavelength side of a minimum of the amplified asymmetrical optical signal.
  • the long period grating is configured to divert at least a portion, and more preferably a substantial portion, of the long wavelength to the cladding.
  • the long period grating can be configured to divert a predetermined amount of the gain to the cladding.
  • the writing step includes the step of varying an intensity of the writing beam over the predetermined length.
  • the writing step includes the steps of: 1) placing a grating mask over the optical fiber along the predetermined length, and 2) applying the writing beam through the long period grating mask onto the optical fiber wherein the long period grating mask has a plurality of nonuniformly spaced slits formed therein, to thereby form a plurality of nonuniformly spaced index perturbations over at least a portion of the predetermined length of the long period grating.
  • the writing step includes the step of varying the residence time of the writing beam over the predetermined length, or alternatively, may include the step of straining the optical fiber over the predetermined length.
  • the writing step includes writing the long period grating to divert at least a portion of a long wavelength positioned on a long wavelength side of a minimuminto the cladding, to thereby produce an asymmetrical optical signal having side lobes on the long wavelength side.
  • the writing step includes writing the long period grating to divert at least a portion of a short wavelength on a short wavelength side of a minimuminto the cladding, to thereby produce an asymmetrical optical signal having side lobes on the short wavelength side of the minima.
  • the amplified asymmetrical optical signal has a short wavelength on a short wavelength side of a minimum of the asymmetrical optical signal and the long period grating is configured to divert at least a portion of the short wavelength to the cladding.
  • the amplified asymmetrical optical signal may have a long wavelength on a long wavelength side of a minimum of the amplified asymmetrical optical signal and the long period grating is configured to divert at least a portion of the long wavelength to the cladding.
  • FIG. 1 there is illustrated a schematic diagram of an optical system 10 in which the present invention is used.
  • an optical signal 12 is transmitted over a conventional optical fiber 14.
  • the optical signal 12 becomes weak, which makes it necessary for it to be amplified to insure high quality transmission of data.
  • the weak optical signal 12 enters a conventional optical amplifier 16 and is nonuniformly amplified as shown by the schematic spectrum 18 in which each of the vertical lines in the schematic spectrum 18a represents a different wavelength.
  • the optical amplifier 16 is a single component that delivers at its output a linearly amplified replica of the optical input signal 12.
  • the different channels experience different gains and are output with different amplitudes 18a. If gain is imparted to the optical signal 18, it continues to be further amplified as it passes through successive optical amplifiers that are placed along the length of the optical fiber 14. At a certain point, the gain associated with the center wavelength is acquired at the expense of adjacent wavelengths, thus making them essentially useless for data transmission purposes.
  • spectrally dependent noise sources on either side of the amplified wavelength can also effectively add loss to the optical signal 18.
  • an optical shaping device 20 such as a long period grating 20a, of the present invention in the optical fiber 14 to remove any such gain or wavelengths.
  • the back reflected light is less than 1% of the transmitted light as opposed to a short period grating with a substantial portion of the light is reflected.
  • the altered and equalized spectrum 22 illustrates how the optical shaper 20 removes the undesirable gain from the spectrum to a quality transmission level.
  • the optical shaping device 20 may be placed in the optical fiber 14 either before the optical amplifier 16, in the middle of the optical amplifier 16 (i.e., inserted between two segments of a rare-earth doped fiber) or after the amplifier 16. However, the preferred position for the optical shaping device 20 is in the middle of the optical amplifier 16.
  • the optical shaping device 20 may be configured to remove either the undesirable gain or noise wavelengths or both to produce the amplified, yet equalized optical signal 22.
  • FIG. 1A there is schematically illustrated an eight channel wavelength division multiplexed system.
  • the incoming weak optical signal 12 enters the optical amplifier which produces the amplifier's spectrum 18.
  • the dashed line 24 represents the preferred amount of gain necessary for quality data transmission.
  • the optical amplifier imparts additional gain 26, which is represented by that portion of the vertical lines extending above the dashed line 24, to certain wavelengths 28.
  • the optical shaper produces a spectrum 30 that is essentially the inverted match of the amplifier's spectrum 18 and that removes the imparted gain 26, which is represented by that portion of the vertical lines that extends above the solid line and to produce the equalized, amplified signal 22.
  • the optical fiber 14 is preferably a single mode optical fiber that has a silica core 32 doped with a photosensitive material, such as germanium, phosphorus, tin or with electroptic or magnetooptic materials. Further, the optical fiber 14 may be loaded with molecular hydrogen or deuterium to enhance its photosensitivity.
  • the optical shaping device can then be written by selectively exposing the core 32 to a beam of intense light.
  • the optical shaping device is comprised of a long period grating having a nonuniform refractive index profile extending over at least a portion of its length that is configured to alter the optical signal to produce an asymmetrical optical signal.
  • the length of the optical shaping device may vary with the application, but typically, its length ranges from about one centimeter to about five centimeters.
  • Some of the methods for selectively exposing the core 32 to the writing beam include, but are not necessarily limited to: 1) varying the residence time of the beam as a function of the predetermined length of the optical shaping device, 2) varying the intensity of the beam as a function of the optical shaping device's length, 3) varying the periodicity as a function of the optical shaping device's length or 4) straining the optical fiber 14 during exposure to the beam.
  • the preferred exposure source is ultraviolet radiation from a Krypton Fluoride (KrF) excimer laser 34, though other known sources of light used in photosensitive exposure processes may also be used.
  • Proper spacing or light intensity can be effected by exposing the optical fiber core 32 to a laser beam with varying intensities spread over the length of the optical shaper.
  • the preferred intensity of the laser 34 is 100 mJ/cm 2 with the laser 34 preferably having a wavelength of emission equal to 248 nm.
  • the optical fiber 14 can be exposed to a wide beam from a laser 34 through an amplitude mask 36 providing a plurality of transparent slits 38 at a variable spacing pattern ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 3 ,..., etc. and a varying spacing width w 1 , w 2 , w 3 , w 4 , .
  • the exposure dosage for each slit 38 is on the order of 1000 pulses of > 100 mJ/cm 2 fluence/pulse, and the number and spacing of perturbations range greatly depending on the specific optical shaping device.
  • a nonuniform index profile is one that produces an asymmetrical optical spectrum.
  • the side lobes on only one side of the main minimun are capable of effectively transmitting data.
  • these side lobes may appear on both sides of the main minimum but the side lobes on only one side of the main minimum are capable of effectively transmitting data in the forward propagating direction.
  • the transmission dip for a given side lobe must be about 0.5 dB or less before data can be effectively transmitted at that side lobes wavelength.
  • the nonuniformity of the refractive index profile may extend over only a portion of the optical shaper or it may extend over the entire length of the optical shaper.
  • These varying refractive indices along the length of the optical shaper depend on the way in which the refractive index profile is written into the optical shaper; the width w of the perturbations is varied, and the intensity of the writing beam, the amount of strain placed on the optical fiber 14 during the optical shaper core's 32 exposure to the beam, or the residence time of the writing beam along the optical shaper's length may be varied.
  • the phrase "residence time” means the amount of time at a particular point along the length of the optical shaper that the core 32 is exposed to the beam.
  • FIG. 3 there is illustrated a schematic cross section of an embodiment of an optical shaping device 20 of the present invention comprising a length of optical fiber 14 for transmitting an optical signal in a forward propagating mode.
  • the optical fiber 14 has a core 32 with a predetermined refractive index of n 1 surrounded by a cladding 40 with a lower predetermined refractive index of n 2 .
  • the cladding 40 may comprise multiple layers of different indices, each possessing a different refractive index.
  • the core 32 refractive index n 1 may not necessarily be a step function but may vary radially across the core 32.
  • the core 32 includes one or more optical shaping devices.
  • the long period grating comprises a plurality of index perturbations p 1 , p 2 , p 3 , p 4 , p 5 , Vietnamese, etc. of varying width w 1 , w 2 , w 3 , Vietnamese, etc. spaced apart by a varying periodic distance ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 , across, etc. (i.e., periodicity).
  • the perturbations p 1 , p 2 , p 3 , p 4 , p 5 , Across, etc. each have a different refractive index that is formed within the core 32.
  • the perturbations p 1 , p 2 , p 3 , p 4 , p 5 , Vietnamese, etc. are preferably formed at an angle of ⁇ (2° ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 90°) with the longitudinal axis of the optical fiber 14.
  • the optical fiber 14 is designed to transmit a broad band optical signal of wavelength ⁇ .
  • a long period grating is a grating with a periodicity greater than the wavelength of light (typically greater than 2 microns) that couples a guided mode in an optical fiber to a forward propagating nonguided mode of the optical fiber; that is, the optical signal is not reflected as in a short period grating.
  • a nonguided mode could be either a cladding mode, a radiation mode or a ring mode in the case of a multi-layer wave guide.
  • the core of the wave guide is defined as the central raised index region of the wave guide.
  • phase matching condition shows that one can modify any of the three free parameters at hand, namely, the effective index of the core 32, the effective index of the cladding 40 or the grating 20a periodicity and change the wavelength at which the device operates.
  • the effective indices of the core n core and cladding n clad modes are directly dependent on the refractive indices (a material property) of both the core n 1 and the cladding n 2 .
  • coupled mode equations have been formulated that allow predictions of how much of the core mode will go into the cladding mode at any given wavelength, and therefore allow the optical spectrum to be accurately predicted.
  • the coupled mode equations account for the core mode. They account for the cladding mode, and they couple the two modes together using the refractive index perturbations formed in the optical shaper 20 of the present invention. Thus, these equations provide a way to predict how the core and cladding modes will be affected by the optical shaper 20.
  • the spectrum from any optical amplifier can be determined by conventional processes.
  • an optical shaper producing an inverted spectrum of the optical amplifier's spectrum can be developed to remove those unwanted portions whether they be in the form of unwanted gain, noise wavelength or both.
  • the above equations can be used to determine what nonuniform refractive index must be written into the optical shaper to remove the unwanted portion of the optical signal produced by the optical amplifier.
  • FIG. 4A there is illustrated a graphical plot of a conventional simple uniform long period grating having a length z of 5 cm. As seen by the graph, this grating has a uniform refractive index profile because there is no variation in the intensity I or periodicity ⁇ along the grating's length.
  • FIG. 4B The spectrum produced by the grating of FIG. 4A is illustrated in FIG. 4B.
  • the spectrum produced by the uniform grating is symmetrical; that is, there is symmetry about the main minima 42, which represents a substantial dip in transmission.
  • FIG. 6A there is illustrated a graphical plot of a complex, nonuniform long period grating of the present invention showing an inverted Gaussian profile that has a varying intensity I or periodicity A along the grating's length of 5 cm.
  • a chain of amplifiers is compensated because the spectrum resulting from sending a light signal of broad bandwidth through the amplifiers gets distorted due to the asymmetric transfer function of the amplifiers.
  • the asymmetry is present on the shorter wavelength side.
  • the wavelength of the main peak or main minimum 48 is typically at 1558 nm and the optical channels of the system are propagating from 1550 nm on the short wavelength side 50 to 1565 nm on the long wavelength side 52.
  • FIG. 6B illustrates the complex, asymmetrical spectrum produced by the grating of FIG. 6A represented by the solid line with side lobes 54 formed on the long wavelength side 52 of a main minimum 48.
  • the dashed line 56 represents the conventional symmetrical spectrum first illustrated in FIG. 4B above. While the asymmetry may appear slight, exact shape matching, within 0.1 to 0.2 dB is critical to many optical systems.
  • a key feature of this spectrum is that the side lobes 56a on the shorter wavelength side 50 are effectively removed at the expense of heightened side lobes 54 on the longer wavelength side 52.
  • This phenomenon can be understood by a simple one-to-one correspondence between the refractive index change and the wavelength; if the induced refractive index change is low, shorter wavelengths are affected, and in contrast, as the induced refractive index changes increase, longer wavelengths start to be coupled out to the cladding.
  • the grating intensity vary as in FIG. 6A, the coupling for the longer and shorter wavelengths is spatially separated. Overall, the spectrum will be broadened.
  • strong side lobes occur on the long wavelength side due to an interferometric beating between the core mode and the cladding mode. Thus, light at the longer wavelengths is only partially coupled into the cladding mode as it enters the grating.
  • FIG. 7A there is illustrated a graphical plot of another complex nonuniform long period grating of the present invention showing a varying intensity or periodicity along the length of the grating that produces the spectrum in FIG. 7B.
  • FIG. 7B illustrates a complex asymmetrical spectrum produced by the grating of FIG. 7A shown by the solid line with side lobes 58 formed on the short wavelength side 60 of a main minimum 62, while the dashed 64 represents the conventional spectrum first illustrated in FIG. 5B above.
  • noise When a signal propagates in an erbium amplifier, noise is accumulated along with signal amplification, and this noise along with signal amplification typically predominate at wavelengths centered around 1530 nm.
  • this representative spectral slice centered around 1530 nm without significantly affecting the signal which travels at ⁇ > 1550 nm.
  • the side lobes that appear on the longer wavelength side will effectively add loss to the signal wavelength as well. This loss is detrimental to system performance.
  • the side lobes 66 appearing on the long wavelength side 68 have been removed, thereby making that portion of the spectrum available for quality transmission.
  • the side lobes may be only substantially removed; that is, the side lobe's transmission dip has been reduced to about 0.5 dB or less.
  • FIG. 8A there is illustrated a graphical plot of a complex nonuniform long period grating showing a varying intensity or periodicity along the length of the grating that produces the spectrum in FIG. 8B.
  • FIG. 8B illustrates a complex asymmetrical spectrum produced by the grating of FIG. 8A.
  • FIG. 8A is a schematic graph showing an refractive index/period profile that has multiple peaks which lead to a spectrum with a complicated shape with multiple maxima and minima.
  • Such spectrum is useful for matching the shape of a single erbium amplifier over a broader wavelength range (typically 30-40 nm wide) as shown in FIG. 5.
  • FIGS. 9A & 9B there is respectively illustrated an actual graph of a writing beam residence time curve for a preferred long period grating covered by the present invention and a complex, asymmetrical spectrum with a side lobe on the short wavelength side of a main minima produced by the grating of FIG. 9A.
  • the optical shaping device was written in a conventional standard dispersion-shifted fiber that had approximately 10 mole percent of germanium in its core.
  • the optical fiber was loaded with molecular hydrogen (2% in core) and was then exposed to a beam from a KrF laser having a wavelength of emission equal to 248 nm.
  • the fluence of the beam was 100mJ/cm 2 and the beam was scanned over a length of approximately one inch in accordance with the residence times reflected in FIG. 9A.
  • the grating was annealed in an oven at 150°C for 24 hours, which removed any residual hydrogen remaining in the core and also helped erase any unstable defects that may have been created in the fiber.
  • the resulting spectrum was measured as illustrated in FIG. 9B. As clearly shown in FIB. 9B, the side lobes on the long wavelength side 70 of the main minimum 72 were eliminated at the expense of adding one strong lobe 72 on the short wavelength side 74.
  • FIGS. 10A & 10B there is respectively illustrated an actual graph showing the periodicity at a function of the length of a preferred long period grating preferred and a complex, asymmetrical spectrum with a side lobe on the long wavelength side of a main minimumproduced by the grating of FIG. 10A.
  • the optical shaping device was written in a conventional standard dispersion-shifted fiber that had approximately 10 mole percent of germanium in its core.
  • the optical fiber was loaded with molecular hydrogen (2% in core) and was then exposed to a beam from a KrF laser having a wavelength of emission equal to 248 nm through a mask having a periodicity as reflected in FIG. 10A.
  • the fluence of the beam was 100mJ/cm 2 and the beam was scanned over a length of approximately one inch in accordance with the residence times reflected in FIG. 10A.
  • the grating was annealed in any oven at 150°C for 24 hours, which removed any residual hydrogen remaining in the core and also helped erase any unstable defects that may have been created in the fiber.
  • the resulting spectrum was measured as illustrated in FIG. 10B. As clearly shown in FIB. 10B, the side lobes on the short wavelength side 78 of the main minima 80 were eliminated at the expense of adding one strong lobe 82 on the short wavelength side 84.

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  1. Dispositif de mise en forme de signaux optiques (20) comprenant un réseau de période longue de longueur prédéterminée formé à l'intérieur d'une fibre optique (14) ayant un coeur (32) d'un premier indice de réfraction prescrit n1 et une gaine d'un deuxième indice de réfraction prescrit n2 et configuré en vue de transmettre un signal optique prédéterminé à travers lui, ledit réseau de période longue ayant un profil d'indice de réfraction non uniforme s'étendant sur au moins une partie de ladite longueur prédéterminée et configuré en vue de modifier ledit signal optique pour produire un spectre de transmission de signal optique asymétrique, dans lequel au moins une partie dudit signal optique est déviée d'un mode guidé en un mode non guidé à propagation vers l'avant,
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    ledit profil d'indice de réfraction non uniforme comporte une multiplicité de perturbations d'indice (P) espacées par une distance périodique variable et le spectre asymétrique est tel que seuls les lobes latéraux sur un côté d'un minimum principal sont toujours capables de transmettre efficacement des données dans le sens avant et les lobes latéraux sur l'autre côté ont été efficacement éliminés.
  2. Dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique selon la revendication 1, dans lequel au moins un de ladite pluralité de perturbations d'indice a une largeur qui varie d'une largeur d'un reste de ladite pluralité de perturbations d'indice.
  3. Dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit réseau de période longue est configuré en vue de dévier au moins une partie d'une longueur d'onde longue positionnée sur un côté de longueur d'onde longue d'un minimum dans ladite gaine, en vue de produire ainsi un signal optique asymétrique ayant des lobes latéraux sur ledit côté de longueur d'onde longue.
  4. Dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit réseau de période longue est configuré en vue de dévier au moins une partie d'une longueur d'onde courte sur un côté de longueur d'onde courte d'un minimum dans ladite gaine, en vue de produire ainsi un signal optique asymétrique ayant des lobes latéraux sur ledit côté de longueur d'onde courte dudit minimum.
  5. Dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre un amplificateur optique couplé à ladite fibre optique, ledit amplificateur optique étant capable de transmettre un signal optique asymétrique amplifié à ladite fibre optique et dans lequel ledit réseau de période longue est configuré en vue de dévier au moins une partie dudit signal optique asymétrique amplifié vers ladite gaine.
  6. Dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique selon la revendication 5, dans lequel ledit amplificateur optique est un amplificateur optique dopé à l'erbium.
  7. Dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique selon la revendication 5, dans lequel ledit signal optique asymétrique amplifié a une longueur d'onde courte sur un côté de longueur d'onde courte d'un minimum dudit signal optique asymétrique et ledit réseau de période longue est configuré en vue de dévier au moins une partie de ladite longueur d'onde courte vers ladite gaine.
  8. Dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique selon la revendication 5, dans lequel ledit signal optique asymétrique amplifié a une longueur d'onde longue sur un côté de longueur d'onde longue d'un minimum dudit signal optique asymétrique et ledit réseau de période longue est configuré en vue de dévier au moins une partie de ladite longueur d'onde longue vers ladite gaine.
  9. Dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique selon la revendication 5, dans lequel ledit réseau de période longue est configuré en vue de dévier une partie prédéterminée d'un gain conféré audit signal optique asymétrique amplifié vers ladite gaine.
  10. Procédé de fabrication d'un dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique, comprenant les étapes de:
    focalisation d'un faisceau d'écriture sur une fibre optique le long d'une longueur prédéterminée d'une partie photosensible de ladite fibre optique ; et
    écriture d'un profil d'indice de réfraction non uniforme s'étendant sur au moins une partie de ladite longueur prédéterminée de telle sorte que ledit dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique soit configuré pour modifier un signal optique en vue de produire un spectre de transmission de signal optique asymétrique, dans lequel au moins une partie dudit signal optique est déviée d'un mode guidé en un mode non guidé à propagation vers l'avant ;
    CARACTERISE EN CE QUE
    ladite écriture comporte la formation d'une multiplicité de perturbations d'indice espacées par une distance périodique variable de telle sorte que le spectre asymétrique soit tel que seuls les lobes latéraux sur un côté d'un minimum principal soient toujours capables de transmettre efficacement des données dans le sens avant et les lobes latéraux sur l'autre côté soient efficacement éliminés.
  11. Procédé selon la revendication 10, dans lequel ladite étape d'écriture comporte l'étape de variation d'une intensité dudit faisceau d'écriture sur ladite longueur prédéterminée.
  12. Procédé selon la revendication 10, dans lequel ladite étape d'écriture comporte les étapes de :
    placement d'un masque de réseau par-dessus ladite fibre optique le long de ladite longueur prédéterminée ; et
    application dudit faisceau d'écriture à travers ledit masque de réseau de période longue sur ladite fibre optique, une pluralité de fentes espacées de manière non uniforme étant formée dans ledit masque de réseau de période longue, en vue de former ainsi ladite pluralité de perturbations d'indice sur au moins une partie de ladite longueur prédéterminée dudit réseau de période longue et former au moins une de ladite pluralité de perturbations d'indice jusqu'à une largeur qui varie d'une largeur d'un reste de ladite pluralité de perturbations d'indice.
  13. Procédé selon la revendication 10, dans lequel ladite étape d'écriture comporte l'étape de variation du temps de séjour du faisceau d'écriture sur ladite longueur prédéterminée.
  14. Procédé selon la revendication 10, dans lequel ladite étape d'écriture comporte l'étirement de ladite fibre optique sur ladite longueur prédéterminée.
  15. Procédé selon la revendication 10, dans lequel ladite étape d'écriture comporte l'écriture dudit réseau de période longue pour dévier au moins une partie d'une longueur d'onde longue positionnée sur un côté de longueur d'onde longue d'un minimum dans ladite gaine, en vue de produire ainsi un signal optique asymétrique ayant des lobes latéraux sur ledit côté de longueur d'onde courte.
  16. Procédé selon la revendication 10, dans lequel ladite étape d'écriture comporte l'écriture dudit réseau de période longue pour dévier au moins une partie d'une longueur d'onde courte sur un côté de longueur d'onde courte d'un minimum dans ladite gaine, en vue de produire ainsi un signal optique asymétrique ayant des lobes latéraux sur ledit côté de longueur d'onde longue dudit minimum.
  17. Procédé selon la revendication 10, dans lequel ledit faisceau d'écriture est un laser.
  18. Système de transmission à fibre optique, comprenant :
    une fibre optique ayant une longueur prédéterminée et ayant un coeur d'un premier indice de réfraction prescrit n1 et une gaine d'un deuxième indice de réfraction prescrit n2 et configurée en vue de transmettre un signal optique à travers ;
    un dispositif de mise en forme de signal optique comportant :
    un réseau de période longue de longueur prédéterminée formé à l'intérieur d'une partie de ladite fibre optique, ledit réseau de période longue ayant un profil d'indice de réfraction non uniforme s'étendant sur au moins une partie de ladite longueur prédéterminée et configuré en vue de modifier ledit signal optique pour produire un spectre de transmission de signal optique asymétrique ; un amplificateur optique couplé à ladite fibre optique, ledit amplificateur optique étant capable de transmettre un signal optique asymétrique amplifié vers ladite fibre optique,
    ledit réseau de période longue étant configuré en vue de dévier au moins une partie dudit signal optique asymétrique amplifié vers ladite gaine et
    caractérisé en ce que ledit profil d'indice de réfraction non uniforme comportant une multiplicité de perturbations d'indice espacées par une distance périodique variable de telle sorte que le spectre asymétrique soit tel que seuls les lobes latéraux sur un côté d'un minimum principal soient toujours capables de transmettre efficacement des données dans le sens avant et les lobes latéraux sur l'autre côté soient efficacement éliminés.
  19. Dispositif de système dé transmission à fibre optique selon la revendication 18, dans lequel ledit amplificateur optique est un amplificateur optique dopé à l'erbium.
  20. Système de transmission à fibre optique selon la revendication 18, dans lequel ledit réseau de période longue est configuré en vue de dévier au moins une partie d'une longueur d'onde courte sur un côté de longueur d'onde courte d'un minimum dans ladite gaine, en vue de produire ainsi un signal optique asymétrique ayant des lobes latéraux sur ledit côté de longueur d'onde courte dudit minimum.
  21. Système de transmission à fibre optique selon la revendication 18, dans lequel ledit réseau de période longue est configuré en vue de dévier au moins une partie d'une longueur d'onde longue sur un côté de longueur d'onde longue d'un minimum dans ladite gaine, en vue de produire ainsi un signal optique asymétrique ayant des lobes latéraux sur ledit côté de longueur d'onde longue dudit minimum.
  22. Système de transmission à fibre optique selon la revendication 18, dans lequel ledit réseau de période longue est couplé audit amplificateur optique entre des extrémités opposées dudit amplificateur optique.
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